On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


smonster - Oct 20, 2011 4:17:34 pm PDT #2517 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Mega-meara:

smonster... dude, I am so sorry you are me in that. But, hey, at least we're self-aware now? Which doesn't always help, but often does, as I have seen in many of your posts... posts which I have found helpful to me, if that's at all useful for you to hear.

It does, thanks. Knowing is half the battle, right? Too bad it's the really freaking easy half.

He will show a Simpsons clip at the beginning of class and the kids have to identify the real-life physics issues portrayed in it.

My hs physics teacher, who I adored, had us work problems based on clips from movies like "The Money Pit" and whichever Superman where he flies around the world and turns back time or whatever. He also got pulled over for prolonged honking while speeding down the road in front of our school to demonstrate the Dopplar effect, and told the cop he'd pay the ticket but was going to keep doing it for his other classes.

Who eats 2tbs of hummus??

Someone who has already filled up on cheese.

I nearly choked on my pizza. Which had cheese (two kinds) but no hummus.

Star followed by rainbow.

Choking close call #2.

When we lived out in the country, we had a dozen or more animals show up in our yard that people just dumped. We ended up keeping a dog and two cats and finding homes for the rest.

My grandfather's road wasn't paved until the early 90s. That's how he got all of his dogs and cats. They just show up.

His first year, it was all we could do to keep him in the chair. This year, he is going to surpass his entire class.

Awww, good for him.

I'll going to have to watch some of the bi visibility videos. Maybe make one? IDK.

meara, sucks about your camera.


sarameg - Oct 20, 2011 4:22:50 pm PDT #2518 of 30001

Sorry for the drive-bys. It's a little hectic having the parents here AND having this little girl in the basement: [link]


Jesse - Oct 20, 2011 4:23:55 pm PDT #2519 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Aw, kitten!


sarameg - Oct 20, 2011 4:24:55 pm PDT #2520 of 30001

I just hope she's not knocked up.


Jesse - Oct 20, 2011 4:26:39 pm PDT #2521 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, that would be....yikes.


sarameg - Oct 20, 2011 4:29:24 pm PDT #2522 of 30001

Likely kitty-abortion time, to be blunt about it.


JenP - Oct 20, 2011 4:30:09 pm PDT #2523 of 30001

Oh, wow, sarameg, she is adorable.


Jesse - Oct 20, 2011 4:33:42 pm PDT #2524 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, do they do that? That's good. Lord knows there are too many abandonded cats already.


Steph L. - Oct 20, 2011 4:34:46 pm PDT #2525 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

He also got pulled over for prolonged honking while speeding down the road in front of our school to demonstrate the Dopplar effect, and told the cop he'd pay the ticket but was going to keep doing it for his other classes.

My high school was in a not-great part of town, and we could often hear police sirens as cop cars zipped down the road past school. My physics teacher (who was all of 22 when he taught at an all-girls' school) would be up at the blackboard, teaching something, and when a siren would blare by, he'd yell "DOPPLER EFFECT!!!" and resume what he was saying, without a pause. It was awesome.


Cass - Oct 20, 2011 4:35:40 pm PDT #2526 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Oh, do they do that?

Well, they spay. And if the cat is pregnant when they start, she isn't when they're done. It's not an awesome thing but neither are more abandoned cats.